Just say no to plastic bags: one man's cautionary tale

7:11 PM,
Feb. 25, 2013

Tom Lindsey

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Tom Lindsey
| Writers? Group

I admit, I have an irrational phobia of plastic bags that has haunted me to this day.

Hollywood helped give birth to my fear of plastic in 1974 when I watched "Black Christmas" - a slasher film based on the urban legend "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs."

Framed in a dark attic window, the image of a murdered sorority girl's head wrapped in plastic has left a formidable scar in my psyche. Sure, I was only 6 at the time and should have been in bed figuring out how to kill the boogeyman residing under our basement stairs, but that's beside the point. ...